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Saturday, April 01, 2006
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Paglia She's older, more mellow, a successful public person. She filled up the big bright brand-new lecture hall in GW's spiffy international affairs building. Her charming amble along her now-familiar points of interest - the death of the humanities; passionless teachers and scholars; people who fear their own autonomy - held no surprises for UD, who's been reading her essays for years. It was pleasant to sense the actual person she is: rather wary, after decades of intellectual turmoil; a little tired herself of some of her shtick. But still, as her comments expanded, with her heart in it. |